Bangladesh Test cricketer Shahadat Hossain turned himself into police after a month on the run. He faces allegations that he tortured an 11-year-old housemaid in a scandal that has gripped the nation.
The medium-fast bowler handed himself over to police in the capital, Dhaka, a month after allegations surfaced that he and his wife abused their maid, Mahfuza Akter Happy. Hossain went to the police in early September, claiming that the maid had gone missing. However, the girl was found the same day with injuries that suggested she had suffered serious physical abuse. She alleged that Hossain and his wife had frequently beaten her until she managed to run away. TV footage showed her with two black eyes and covered in bruises. “She told us that the couple beat her very often. Her hand was charred with a hot cooking paddle [spoon]. She had injury marks all over her body,” Inspector Shafiqur Rahman said. Police raided Hossain’s home but found that he and his wife, Nritto Shahadat, had fled. Shahadat surrendered to police on Sunday, a day before her husband emerged.
